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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: "euresult26@terra.es" <euresult26@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:24:48 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: CONTACT THE EUROPEAN PAYMENT OFFICE FOR YOUR PRIZE !!!



CONTACT THE EUROPEAN PAYMENT OFFICE FOR YOUR PRIZE !!!
E.U LOTTO AWARD NETHERLANDS
LUCKY NUMBER: 44/42/09-ANL/06
TICKET NUMBER: 67-84-501
YOUR REF NUMBER: AD/GU888/68/06.NH
GAME NUMBER: 7387
KINDLY RESPOND TO E-MAIL: lotteryclaims@aol.nl
FINAL NOTICE OF WINNING

We are delighted to notify you of the result of the free lotto E.U programs held on 16th of May, 2007 your email address was attached to the above winning details.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 1,500,000.00 euro (One million five Hundred Thousand Euro) CONGRATULATIONS !!!

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system from our sponsors databases, including over 5,000 companies and 20,000 individual E-mail addresses and names submitted by our agents drawn from Asia, Africa, Europe, North And South America, Oceania and around the world. To file for your urgent claim, please contact our affiliate european agent.

CONTACT AGENT : MRS. LUCY HANS
EUROPEAN LOTTERY AWARD AGENCY
ROTTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS
REPLY E-MAIL: lotteryclaims@aol.nl
Tel: 0031 633 733 265

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours faithfully
Mrs. Patricia Williams
Award Centre Co-coordinator
E.U Lottery International office





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